A.R. Collins: Writer
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Poetry

The Magic Mirror

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My mistress was a queen.
She knew I could have seen such things;
The crops each season brings,
The ministers and kings who would
Sign treaties for her good;
The noble things she could have said
And done, with king abed,
Ageing, mad and half dead, but she
Betrayed him; misused me.
Handsome she was, I'd see, and tall;
Asked mirror on the wall,
Who was fairest in all the land.
I thought her fairest, and
I told her so; the grand queen knew
A spirit's words were true,
While little princess grew, until
Her looks were fit to kill.
I thought to lie, but still I told
The truth as queen grew old,
And Snow, whose heart of gold did shine…
The fault, I fear, was mine.
For spirits, truth is fine and right,
But my words brought her blight.
How dreadful her fate might have been.

© A.R. Collins, 2011
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  • Children's
    • The Tartan Mouse
    • Rose's First Year
    • The Girl in the Pantry
    • The Karma Train
    • Frankenchild
    • Heights and Jumping From Them
    • Flea and Flee
    • The Divine Inheritance
    • The Change
    • Midnight Encounter
  • Flash
    • Lament of the Castorocauda
    • The Sinner's Corpse
    • The Tale of Kitten Clamber
    • Prejudice
    • Evacuees
    • Intelligent Zombies
    • Burning Bright
    • Guinevere
    • An Enid Blyton Tribute
    • Fairies
    • A Common Cause
    • Mermaid
    • Trolling
    • Personal Ad
    • Hair
    • On the Streets
  • Poetry
    • Stay Away, My Lads
    • Noveling
    • Song of the Mapinguari
    • The Dining Room
    • The World's End
    • Pruning
    • Sekhmet
    • A Mermaid
    • Tiny Worlds
    • The Magic Mirror
    • The Portrait
    • Goldilocks
    • Clerihews
  • Hear
  • Published
    • Read 'Mysterious Circumstances' Ch.1
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